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Thursday, March 10, 2011

The Great Trader Joe's Dig Begins?

Retail week on Sloopin wouldn't be official if we didn't have at least one post about the Trader Joe's that's going in at the corner of Roosevelt and State. As you may or may not remember, one of the "contingencies" for TJ's to come to this location was that they could build a parking lot (beyond what was already there).

After we snapped these pictures they put up a green construction fence which has a sign for Bovis on it. So it looks official in our mind. As always we will keep our eyes fixated on this project and try to monitor updates accordingly.

Finally, it also appears that the inside has been cleaned out and some contsruction has begun there as well (we noticed one of the backwalls has a huge hole in it). Besides that nothing major at this point, but good to see some movement within the building.

Sloopy - this blog would be so much more valuable to local residents if you would do some basic investigative research. Read the permit. Ask the workers. Go by and take some photos. This would require....10 minutes of your time?

anon 3:34 - believe it or not, Sloopin isn't a full time job. It could be, but that would require someone or some business to donate some money to the cause. I would gladly quit my day job and/or hire a paid staff if we had some additional revenue coming in. Right now that's not the case.

We do what we can and hope it's valuable in some way. We rely on people around the neighborhood (like yourself) to help fill in some of the blanks.

As an FYI, we did take the pictures and we did walk by the parking lot. Unfortunately when we did, we didn't see the permit.

That's harsh anon 3:34. Sloopy is doing this out of his own good will and interest in the neighborhood. If something is of interest to you, why don't you take the 10 mins to go find out about it and report back. That's why there's such a thing as comments on this blog.

Kudos to remaining so well-composed, Sloopy, in the face of such an entitled and condescending comment. I second the above comment: If it only takes 10 minutes of one's time, why don't you do it anon 3:34?